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SRH vs LSG preview: Can Harshal Patel find new safe home at Sunrisers Hyderabad after online trolling in past? | Ipl News

SRH vs LSG preview: Can Harshal Patel find new safe home at Sunrisers Hyderabad after online trolling in past? | Ipl News

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Harshal Patel is a two-time Purple Cap winner. He is the rare Indian seamer, who specializes in bowling at death with different kinds of slower ones. Mastery over Dwayne Bravo-style dipping delivery that suddenly changes in altitude being a particular highlight. “That is art, how he rolls his wrist, that is his art,” Haryana coach Amarjit Kaypee tells The Indian Express. Despite all the weapons and numbers, Harshal still got trolled on the internet a lot. “Trolling people have the right to say anything; you can’t stop anybody from giving their views. He (Harshal) is mentally very, very strong. He is always focused on what he wants to do, and he is doing what is required for the game,” Kaypee says. Story continues below this ad Harshal’s breakthrough came in 2021, after being traded from the Delhi Capitals, when he picked up 32 wickets in a season – which no other bowler has ever achieved apart from Dwayne Bravo in the IPL. It also fetched him an India T20 debut in November that year. “The …

‘He’s an incredible bowler’: Nathan McSweeney opens up about facing Jasprit Bumrah’s ‘chaos’ in BGT | Cricket News

‘He’s an incredible bowler’: Nathan McSweeney opens up about facing Jasprit Bumrah’s ‘chaos’ in BGT | Cricket News

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Australian batter Nathan McSweeney recently opened up about facing Jasprit Bumrah in the Border Gavaskar Trophy, saying that it was “chaos” facing the Indian bowler. He also said that before facing Bumrah, he didn’t think it would be a big deal but found out the hard way what the Indian pacer brings to the table. “Yeah, tough work is probably an understatement. He’s an incredible bowler. I was probably naïve going into it, never faced him before and (thinking) he’ll be fine. But he’s an incredible bowler that has a great skill but just relentless ability to pitch the ball in the area where you don’t want as a batter,” McSweeney said. “So, it was a very tough challenge but also gave me a hope that no one kind of had great success against him and everyone was trying to tackle him at the same time and no one was playing him with ease, which gave me a little bit of confidence,” he added. McSweeney, originally a middle-order batsman, was included in the Test squad …

Emotional RollerCoaster: Varun slides into direct contention, Glenn Phillips takes a stunner & Rohit ‘stepping down the track’ needs a rethink | Cricket News

Emotional RollerCoaster: Varun slides into direct contention, Glenn Phillips takes a stunner & Rohit ‘stepping down the track’ needs a rethink | Cricket News

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Has Varun Chakravarthy powered himself to earning a spot In the semifinal and maybe beyond? Ravi Shastri roared: “What he’s done is that he has put his hand up now for a spot in the semifinal in the playing XI, because the pitches will be the same, he has been outstanding tonight. Well more headaches for the think-tank and selectors.” With his figures of 5/42, Varun has almost definitely sealed his spot to take on the Aussies in Dubai on Tuesday. Earlier though amidst his flipper and top spinner variations, while aiming at the stumps, there was a tiny slice of luck. And he had Michael Gough to thank. When the English umpire gives a decision on field, rarely has it been overturned in recent times. But he made a rare mistake on Sunday in Dubai when he gave Michael Bracewell out LBW against Varun Chakravarthy. He got the tough part right, that the ball first hit the pad and not the bat. But Varun’s delivery was angling away and later, ball-tracking showed it was …

Champions Trophy: Varun Chakravarthy takes 5 wickets as India defeat New Zealand by 44 runs to set up semifinal date with Australia | Cricket News

Champions Trophy: Varun Chakravarthy takes 5 wickets as India defeat New Zealand by 44 runs to set up semifinal date with Australia | Cricket News

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Varun Chakravarthy starred with 5 wickets for 40 runs as India defeated New Zealand in Dubai on Sunday and topped the Group A table to set up a semifinal date with Australia on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Group B table toppers South Africa will now face New Zealand in the second semifinal in Lahore on Wednesday. Kane Williamson scored a fighting 81 but he was sent back by Axar Patel who along with Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja took 1 wicket apiece. India will be wary of their semifinal opponents who even with a depleted squad pose a threat. The last time these two sides met in an ICC 50-over tournament, Australia had walked out as the ODI World Cup 2023 champions in Ahmedabad. Earlier, Shreyas Iyer produced a composed fifty under pressure but New Zealand, led by pacer Mark Henry, managed to stifle India to an under-par 249 for nine. Story continues below this ad Iyer (79 off 98 balls) shared a well-paced 98 runs alliance with Axar Patel (42 off 61 balls) for the fourth …

ICC Champions Trophy: New Zealand pacers flourish on spin-friendly track | Cricket News

ICC Champions Trophy: New Zealand pacers flourish on spin-friendly track | Cricket News

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Of the three matches played here, the pitch for the India-New Zealand game was by far the toughest the batsmen had encountered. On a pitch that offered 4.5 degrees of turn – the most in the three fixtures so far — India posted the highest total of the tournament at this venue as their game plan against the New Zealand spinners worked. Yet as India walked back with 249/9 on board despite acing their match-up against spinners, picking 5.12 an over, there was a sense of disbelief as to how they didn’t get more. What prevented them from getting a total above par on this surface was the combination of Matt Henry (5/42) and an exceptional fielding performance which saw Glenn Phillips and Kane Williamson convert half-chances into catches that left India stunned. With the surface being on the slower side in the afternoon, Rohit Sharma lost another toss – the last time he won one was in the semi-final of the 2023 World Cup – and were made to bat first. While it definitely …

Meg Lanning’s DC go top with perfect peformance

Meg Lanning’s DC go top with perfect peformance

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There was a nice embrace between Meg Lanning and Shabnim Ismail at the end of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) match in Bengaluru. When Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals met earlier in the season, in the battle of retired international superstars it was the South African pacer who looked sharper and dismissed the DC captain with a peach. But on Friday, Lanning stamped her class, taking down Ismail with an array of boundaries, including a stunning on-drive, as DC went on to beat MI in a one-sided contest to go top of the table. “I’ve played a lot against her and she’s a great competitor I love coming up against her. So yeah, it was nice to get a couple away today,” Lanning said after the match. It was just one of the many things that went her way. The ‘win-toss-win-match’ trend continued as MI were asked to bat and never got going, managing just 123/9. The run-chase was then broken open early by Lanning and Shafali Verma – the WPL’s most prolific duo – …

Wasim Akram on Pakistan bowling unit: ‘Your three premier bowlers have average close to 50. You are not going to win any game unfortunately’ | Cricket News

Wasim Akram on Pakistan bowling unit: ‘Your three premier bowlers have average close to 50. You are not going to win any game unfortunately’ | Cricket News

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With hosts Pakistan losing its fourth match against India in an ICC event with the six-wicket loss against India in Champions Trophy in Dubai on Sunday, it was also Pakistan’s second loss in the tournament and almost shutting the door for the hosts for the tournament. With fast bowlers like Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah only accounting for two wickets in the match, former Pakistan great Wasim Akram has lashed out the pace trio of Pakistan and said Pakistan cannot win any game with such kind of bowlers. “Are you talking about fast bowlers? Fast bowlers for which Pakistan is very famous for. That fast bowlers factories come in Pakistan and whatever comes to mind. I will tell you the stats. Shaheen Shah Afridi, who is our main bowler. He has bowled 47 overs conceding 341 runs taking eight wickets at an average of 43. I am not talking of batting but bowling. Then Haris Rauf. Two matches out of five matches he was injured (Probably he thought who will play five …

Champions Trophy | ‘Kuldeep has a miracle in his hands. He showed the world’ : Ashwin showers praise on Yadav | Cricket News

Champions Trophy | ‘Kuldeep has a miracle in his hands. He showed the world’ : Ashwin showers praise on Yadav | Cricket News

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While the talk has been about Virat Kohli’s 51st ODI hundred during India’s six wicket win over Pakistan in the Champions Trophy match at Dubai on Sunday, left-arm wrist Kuldeep Yadav returned back to form in International cricket with a three-wicket haul. Yadav had made a comeback to international cricket after more than three months in January early this year post a sports hernia injury, a soft tissue injury that happens on an athlete’s groin area. With wickets of Slaman Ali Agha, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah in the match against Pakistan, the 30-year-old had his best wicket haul in his last four matches since injury and former Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has backed the bowler for the comeback. “People should understand that a spinner is making a comeback after an injury. Sometimes in our country, we don’t give so much time to the bowlers. If the batsman fails after a comeback, we tell that he has just come after an injury. If you think it happens with Virat and he plays 2-3 games, …

‘Let’s move on from them’: Mohammad Hafeez wants PAK to look past Shaheen Afridi and co in pace department | Cricket News

‘Let’s move on from them’: Mohammad Hafeez wants PAK to look past Shaheen Afridi and co in pace department | Cricket News

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Former Pakistan player Mohammad Hafeez slammed the Men in Green’s pace attack consisting of Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf after their 6-wicket loss against India in Dubai on Sunday which has put them on the brink of an early exit from the tournament. Hafeez said that it was time for Pakistan to look ahead from this pace trio and give others a chance. “Since the Asia Cup in 2023, we were expecting this trio of Shaheen, Naseem, and Haris to deliver trophies for us. But they’ve been unsuccessful. The 2023 World Cup, a disaster. The 2022 T20 tournament in Melbourne, a disaster. And now, this Champions Trophy, another failure,” he said in PTV’s coverage of the Champions Trophy. “It is time to realise that these guys, according to many people they have skills but these skills are not enough for them to win Pakistan the big tournaments. They are not proving themselves capable of helping Pakistan win a big tournament. Let’s move on from them. Let’s bring other people. Let’s go with …

IND vs PAK | Champions Trophy: Clinical India show timid Pakistan why they are stuck in a different era | Cricket News

IND vs PAK | Champions Trophy: Clinical India show timid Pakistan why they are stuck in a different era | Cricket News

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How much did Pakistan miss a batsman of Virat Kohli’s caliber in the middle-order? How much did they wish they had openers like Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill who showed the urgency to kill the game in the first powerplay? Where are they going to unearth spinners who could collectively choke the opposition in the middle overs? Will their fast-bowling trio, often compared to those in the 90s, ever show there is more to them than numbers that pop on speed gun? When will they realise that unless their fitness parameters improve, they will continue to remain an ordinary fielding outfit that drops catches that could win them matches? If Pakistan do some soul searching, which they are likely to do once the confirmation arrives with regards to the elimination from the Champions Trophy, they need not look beyond India. Since winning the Champions Trophy final against India at the Oval in 2017, this was their sixth straight defeat in completed matches against their arch-rivals. At least till the rivalry retains its hype, it is …